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DAVID WESLEY HOWELL, SHELLMAN', GEORGIA.

PEANUT-SHELLER.

Application filed February 28, 1918.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, DAVID WV. HOWELL, citizenof the United States, residing at Shellman, in the county of Randolphand State of Georgia, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Peanut-Shellers; and I vdo hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to theletters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part ofthis specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in peanut shellingmachine and consists of a simple and efiicient device of this naturehaving various details of construction, combinations and arrangements ofparts which will be hereinafter fully described, shown in theaccompanying drawings and then specifically defined in the appendedclaim.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings which, with theletters of reference marked thereon, form a part of this specificationand in which:

Figure 1 is a central vertical sectional view through the machine.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view on line 33 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail sectional view through the cylinder andshelling plates.

Fig. 5 is a. detailed plan view of two of the shelling plates and wedgesseparating the same.

Fig. 6 is an enlarged sectional view through the shelling plates, andillustrating the wedge in elevation, and

Fig. 7 is an enlarged detailed view of one of the adjustable shellingplates.

Reference now being had to the details of the drawings by numerals:

1 designates the frame of the apparatus having a hopper 2 hinged as at2' to the frame and which hopper has journaled in the walls thereof ashaft 3 to which the cyl-v On reference to Figs. 3 and 4: of the draw-Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 26, 1918.

Serial No. 219,652.

ings, it will be noted that the inner walls of the casing are providedwith curved recesses or arcuate grooves 22' and in which recesses theends of the cross bars 22 are mounted loosely. Each of said bars has ametallic plate 23 secured to its inner edge by screws or otherwise, asshown clearly in Figs. 6 and 7 of the drawings. Said plates which havetheir faces in planes at angles to each other have interposed betweensame, adjustable wedges 2% which engage recesses in the edges of plates23. Rod 28 are fastened one to the plate 23 and another in alinementthereto secured to the adjacent wedge 24, and a coiled spring 27 fitsover said bars and bears intermediate said plate 23 and the ad- .jacentwedge 24. Said spring should be of sufiicient strength so that itstension will hold by pressure the different plates 22 when wedges areinterposed between the same in different adjusted positions.

Intermediate the lower portions of the inclined walls 22 is an exitopening 22 leading into a passageway 10, which latter leads to the fanchamber 8 in which the fan 9 is mounted upon a shaft 8. The saidpassageway also communicates with a passageway 11 which leads to thereceptacle 12 into which shells and foreign matter are forced by thedraft from the fan. A belt 6 passes over a pulley 7 upon the shaft 8 andalso over a pulley 31 upon the shaft 3, affording means for driving thecylinder 4. A belt 25 passes about a pulley 26 upon the shaft 8 and alsoabout the cylindrical screen 20. A pulley 3 is fastened to the end ofthe shaft 3 and is driven from any suitable source of power not shown.

In the bottom wall of the passageway 10 is a trough 13 and 15 designatesa rod passing through the walls of said trough and upon which one end ofthe vibrating hopper 14: is mounted, the outer end being provided with adownwardly and inwardly extending exit pipe 19 leading into one end ofthe cylindrical screen. A rod 16 is pivotally mounted upon a pin 17 andhas pivotal connection through the medium of the pin 16 with one end ofthe vibrating hopper, shown clearly in Figs. 1 and 3 of the drawings,and the free end of the rod 16 rests in the circumferentially groovedcam 17 shown clearly in Fig. 2 of the drawings, and serves as a meansfor imparting a vibratory movement to the hopper 14: when the apparatusis in motion.

'23, the bars carrying the latter being adjustable in order to adapt themachine toshell peanuts of different sizes. As the shells and meats fallupon the inclined'walls 22* they will make exit through the opening 22where the blast of air from the fan will cause the shells and any otherforeign matter that may be contained therewith to be forced up throughthe inclined passageway 11 into the receptacle 12. The peanuts fallinginto the hopper 14 will'be deposited through the pipe 19 into theinterior of the rotary screen 20, the mesh-work of which will be ofsufficient size to permit the seconds and split meats to pass throughwhere they may be caught in a suitable receptacle placed underneath,while the Whole meats will pass through and make exit through the end ofthe cylinder.

By the provision of an apparatus for shelling peanuts made in accordancewith my invention, it will'be noted that the parts are made adjustableso as to permit peanuts of different sizes to beshelledfthe adjust-.different distances apart.

\Vhat I claim to be new is: i

A peanut sheller comprising a casing havingwalls the inner faces ofwhich are provided with arcuate grooves, a series of bars with the endsmounted in said grooves and recessed plates securedto each bar, wedgesmovable in said recesses and interposed betweenthebars and'yieldingmeans bearing against the series of bars and plates to hold same indifferent adjusted positions, a shaft journal in the casing and acylinder rotating with the shaft and having bars adapted to cooperatewith said plates or separating for breaking the shells of peanuts.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signaturein presence of twowitnesses.

DAVID WESLEY HOWELL.

Witnesses:

J. W, CLEMEN'rs, F. G. SEARS.

Copies of this patent maybeobtainedtfor five cents'each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G.

